Chapter 2224: Chapter 2224 Exterminating a Hundred Thousand
Yuan Hao reasoned that they should make the most of their remaining strength by attacking from every angle with all their might to at least reach a stalemate.
Nonetheless, he believed they would be in a worse position after the battle.
The good news is that his elite troops were still out in the west. There was still hope for a victory with 100,000 men in his hand.
Yet, Ye Liuyun gave him a huge surprise.
The Rootless Wood Box that Ye Liuyun had seized from the Twin Strike came into play.
He was well aware that Yuan Hao’s goal was to merge his armies, thus he would not allow this to happen. He had to resort to a ruthless method to win this conflict as swiftly as he hoped to.
He ascended into the air above the battlefield and unfastened the Rootless Wood Box before he poured the seawater from the Endless Sea down below.
The Rootless Box may be small, but it could hold a world. It contained the dark waters of the Endless Sea that could drown a metropolis, let alone a small town like this.
The formation was instantly breached, and a massive hole appeared at the top to leak the seawater. The opponents trapped inside were being drenched with an enormous quantity of water from the Endless Sea.
When Yuan Hao saw Ye Liuyun take out the wooden box, he realised they couldn’t hold out. He promptly got to the Conveyor Formation and teleported back to Deliverance Hill in the west as soon as he could.
As for the troops, he would transfer as many as possible. He didn’t have the capacity to care about everyone.
The Formation was built to have the flexibility to guard the entrance from both inside and outside, preventing soldiers from fleeing.
Hence, it now became an obstacle to these soldiers’ escape.
The whole city soon drowned in the dark seawater. The Conveyor Formation was instantly destroyed and only about 2,000 soldiers were sent away by the Conveyor Formation.
The remaining troops tried to surrender but were drowned by the dark water of the Endless Sea, resulting in their deaths.
By the time the Formation’s foundation was damaged and dissolved, the army of a hundred thousand had also corroded away.
Ye Liuyun began to utilise the rootless wooden box to absorb the black water of the Endless Sea and prevent it from spreading out.
By the time he retrieved the black water from the Endless Sea, the entire desolate tiny city had corroded into a deep abyss.
The earth within the hole had turned black, with no living things left inside.
From a distance, Ye Liuyun’s hundred thousand troops were terrified by the scene before their eyes.
"A hundred thousand soldiers, all gone in an instant?”
"The seawater of this Endless Sea is truly terrifying!”
"With this power at our disposal, won’t future attacks against the Regalty be much easier?"
The soldiers were astounded by the Endless Sea’s dark water’s might.
As Ye Liuyun beheld the dark abyss before him, he, too, was overcome with remorse.
"Look at those 100,000 people! What a huge contribution it would have been if they were sent to fight in the foreign race battlefield!"
He had no choice but to end the fight in such a ruthless way.
In the event of a siege, his troops would suffer enormous casualties, and the final death toll would still be the same, perhaps even more.
Ye Liuyun withdrew and gave the order to He Lianxiu to press the siege northward until she reached Regalty. From there, Xiao Yunfang, Pei Yong and him will surround Regalty.
He let Yu Xiaofeng provide the coordinates, and using the black tower, he rushed to the western army of Yu Xiaofeng.
However, the news of Ye Liuyun using the endless seawater to flood the ruins and instantly annihilate the hundred-thousand-army spread throughout the entire Central region. After all, many martial practitioners witnessed the scene from afar.
For a while, whenever Ye Liuyun’s army appeared in the Central Region, other rebel troops and bandits would promptly surrender out of fear.
Many cities fell without being attacked. Either the city lord fled or surrendered voluntarily. The rates of advancement for the armies of He Lianxiu, Xiao Yunfang, and Pei Yong were extraordinarily swift and smooth.
Ye Liuyun and Yu Xiaofeng’s hundred-thousand-army soon arrived at Soulspire City.
Yuan Hao, defending the Deliverance Hill with his army, did not take the initiative to attack.
He was waiting for Ye Liuyun to initiate the attack and then ambush.
His hundred-thousand-army was trained by his father and himself. There were over ten thousand experts at the intermediate ninth level. The weakest was at the seventh level, making the military force exceptionally formidable.
Yuan Hao might destroy Yu Xiaofeng’s 100,000-strong army with a single charge if she were to recklessly attack Deliverance Hill, capitalising on the topography to his advantage.
He had previously sent people to survey the strength of Yu Xiaofeng’s troops and discovered that they only had just over two thousand martial practitioners of the ninth level, which was far inferior to his armies.
Moreover, he guessed that the Ye Liuyun here was an impostor. He was probably Thousand Faces. When the time came, he was confident he could handle Thousand Faces himself.
Little did he know, ’Thousand Faces’ had already transformed into a black-armoured guard and was standing at Ye Liuyun’s side when he arrived. It was Ye Liuyun himself who appeared now.
Additionally, he was shaken upon discovering that Ye Liuyun had drowned out his hundred-thousand-army, leaving no survivor, after he fled.
Deep down, he knew that Ye Liuyun was an intimidating foe.
No matter how he fared in this fight, he would still need to tread carefully going forward.
There have been no major casualties for Ye Liuyun’s team since the conflict began till now. Ye Liuyun’s leadership abilities were well proven by this!
Ye Liuyun took his time before charging in.
He patiently waited. Mo Xiaotian would surely instruct Yuan Hao to rescue the Revival Dynasty from the siege attacked by Ye Liuyun’s three troops of armies. When that happens, Yuan Hao would have no choice but to deploy his troops.
Qiong Qi devised the defensive Formation for SoulspireCity after Xiao Yunfang requested that Liu Yang, Mo Shaowen, and Soul Cultivators of the Ninth level to assist Ye Liuyun.
Thus, Ye Liuyun was unconcerned and instead focused on ensuring that the Blade Legion had plenty of rest time.
Near Regalty, Xiao Yunfang was the first to arrive.
However, she deliberately kept her army at a safe distance from Regalty, allowing them to rest, and avoided getting too close to the city.
Then came Pei Yong, followed by He Lianxiu.
They all did the same, stopping their journey at a distance of a few days away from the Revival Dynasty.
The Revival Dynasty was soon under strain as 300,000 soldiers encircled Regalty, giving the impression that they were brewing an enormous attack.
Citizens of the Revival Dynasty began fleeing in a panic, and the city’s military was powerless to stop them.
Ye Liuyun’s previous flood in Regalty had the people terrified that he would repeat the same fate there.
Even large forces including the Alliance of Merchants, the Alliance of Merchants, the Alchemist Alliance, and others, were afraid of getting involved and had temporarily evacuated from Regalty.
The entire Regalty fell into a hushed stillness as the patrol soldiers were the only ones seen on the streets.
In contrast, Mo Xiaotian was often pestering Yuan Hao to beef up defences, as he coordinated for the Formation masters of the dynasty to set up several levels of Formations in Regalty to withstand the relentless seawater erosion.
He went to great lengths to prepare for diversion, including digging a massive pit and an outside drainage route beforehand.
The fact that Yu Xiaofeng had not charged in hastily and begun to arrange formations made Yuan Hao confident that they had the support of formation masters as well.
"Looks like Ye Liuyun is surrounded by quite a few talented people! Otherwise, his expansion wouldn’t be so rapid." He deduced.
If he didn’t make a move soon, Ye Liuyun’s reinforcement would soon arrive through the Conveyor Formation.
